Great ideas rarely emerge from isolation

South Park Commons is a community of technologists ideating and validating what to build next. We believe this shouldn’t be done alone. Our members range from exited founders and highly-cited researchers to new graduates and first-time entrepreneurs. What unites us is ambition, ability, and a mutual commitment to helping each other navigate -1 to 0.

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OUR Members

A Modern Day Xerox PARC


We focus on highly technical builders in the -1 to 0. Over the last decade, we have had 1,000 members join us to start companies, pursue research, and work on other ambitious projects.

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Abhishek
Cofounder @Riverline. Multiple failed ventures, started selling software at 19. Passionate about building sustainable businesses. Enjoy crashing drones in my downtime, now focused on growing B2B SaaS
Shahvir
Designer. Human Computer Lab
Srinath
Srinath is the CEO and co-founder of Regie.ai, building AI-native tools for enterprise content creation. Previously co-founded Onera and was a founding engineer at BloomReach. A Carnegie Mellon PhD in algorithms, he’s spent two decades pushing forward NLP, search, and AI product infrastructure.
Bjarni
Founder of Globalized Health. Raised in the Faroe Islands, based in New York. Passionate about the outdoors and anything health/fitness. Trying to make a dent in the world.
Rob
Co-founder and CTO of Vori, bringing modern tools to streamline food supply chains. Previously worked on vehicle systems at SpaceX and Lyft, with a background in electrical engineering from Stanford.
Tiantian
Deeply care about Alzheimer's, prevention, and clinical research. Formerly product at Verily/Google. Built world's first ever mosquito factory.
Marcel
Marcel is the founder of Apache Impala, which he started when he joined Cloudera in 2011 and for which he was the architect/TL until 2017. Before Cloudera, he worked on database technology at Google and several startups. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley.
Afrooz
Currently leads Apple’s Applied Acoustics ML team, building next-gen audio features across the ecosystem. Previously cofounded Syng and served as Head of HomePod Software Engineering, where he helped launch the 2nd-gen HomePod.
Keshav
Currently thinking about how people learn with AI; previously studied causal inference and machine learning at Stanford. Hacker at heart. Learning how to play squash and piano.
Rhys
Building something to help farmers and ranchers implement regenerative agriculture. Former synbio PhD, founder, hedge fund associate, and eng leader

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Our members have started 250+ companies, including several unicorns. Others have become core contributors to leading research organizations, open-source software projects, and academic institutions.

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